Collaboration | WSS | MOSS |
Real-Time Presence and Communication | ||
The enhanced real-time presence smart tag icon, displayed virtually everywhere a person’s name appears in the system, tells users whether a person is online and available for a telephone or audio conference call, instant messaging, or two-way video conversation. | included | included |
Social Networking Webpart | ||
Include Social Networking Web Parts that use information about your organization, communities, and electronic communications in Public My Site pages to help establish connections between colleagues with common interests. | not available | included |
Standard Site Templates | ||
Windows SharePoint Services V3 includes the following standard collaboration site templates | included | included |
Wikis | ||
A wiki is a new site template in Windows SharePoint Services V3 that makes it easy to create, edit, link, and restore an individual Web page. Wikis can be used as creative forums to brainstorm ideas, manage knowledge bases, create designs as well as instruction guides or simply gather information in an easy-to-edit format. Wikis are easy to create, modify, and annotate; in addition to tracking contributions and changes. | included | included |
Blogs | ||
Blogs provide a publishing-oriented experience for a single user or a team. Windows SharePoint Services V3 includes a site template that supports: | included | included |
People and Groups Lists | ||
People and Groups offer a unified place to find, communicate with, and manage people and their permissions, including support for custom fields such as Department, “Office #” and Area of Focus; in addition to the new Person field type. The Person field type creates rich displays of lists of people including support for a People Picker for browsing a list of users. | included | included |
Calendars | ||
Calendars have been enhanced with richer calendar views, expanded support for recurring events, and all-day events. | included | included |
Email Integration | ||
Document libraries, discussion boards, calendars, and announcements can be enabled to receive new postings via e-mail. In addition, extensible support is provided for custom e-mail handlers in Windows SharePoint Services V3. | included | included |
Task Coordination | ||
The new Project Tasks list template provides lightweight task management functionality including Gantt charts for visualization of task relationships and status. | included | included |
Surveys | ||
Surveys now include conditional branching as well as support for inserting page breaks in long surveys such as annual employee satisfaction or and customer surveys. | included | included |
Document Collaboration | ||
Improvements to SharePoint document libraries include: | included | included |
Issue Tracking | ||
The Issue Tracking list template has been updated to use the enhanced versioning and version-history storage features of Windows SharePoint Services V3. | included | included |
Portals | WSS | MOSS |
My Site Personal Site | ||
The My Site personal site gives users an opportunity to aggregate information “for me,” “by me,” and “about me.” Significant enhancements include social networking, privacy controls, SharePoint Sites and Documents Roll-Up Web Parts, and Colleagues and Memberships Web Parts. | not available | included |
Content Syndication | ||
Use RSS feeds to syndicate content managed in a portal site. | not available | included |
Privacy & Security | ||
Use authorizations to control visibility of information in a My Site public view. | not available | included |
Site Directory | ||
The Site Directory automatically creates a site map and presents it in an easy-to-use format. The enhanced directory now includes the option to scan for changed or deleted links to external content. | not available | included |
User Profiles and the Profile Store | ||
User Profiles store personal information for system users. Improvements include multi-valued properties bound to taxonomy from Office SharePoint Server 2007, property-level security controls by person or group, open and closed vocabularies, and per-site property extensions. Profile synchronization and directory import support the extended capabilities of the User Profile Store with enhanced scalability and performance. | not available | included |
Audience Targeting | ||
Enables use of Web Part pages, Web Parts, and content to target distribution lists and groups in addition to SharePoint audiences. | not available | included |
Site Manager | ||
Manage a SharePoint site’s navigation, security access, and general look and feel using this easy drag-and-drop tool. Site Manager unifies site management tasks for portals and Web sites, including management of areas, pages, listings, SharePoint site lists, and associated component parts. | not available | included |
Mobile Device Support | ||
All SharePoint portal, team site, and list pages now render on international and North American mobile devices (including Web-enabled mobile phones) using a simplified text-only format. | included | included |
Portal Site Templates |
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Preconfigured templates streamline creating, customization, and deployment of divisional portals, organization-wide intranet portal sites, and corporate Web sites. | not available | included |
SharePoint Sites and Documents Roll-up Web Parts | ||
List all the SharePoint sites that a user is part of and documents the user has authored. The Documents Roll-up Web Part also supports more general capabilities for querying and filtering the documents stored in a collection of SharePoint sites. | not available | included |
Colleagues and Memberships Web Parts | ||
List people the user knows and people who belong to common distribution groups. | not available | included |
Integration with for Access 2007, Excel 2007, PowerPoint 2007, and Word 2007 | ||
Windows SharePoint Services V3 easily integrates with smart client tools through a set of Web services and documented application interfaces. Users can readily adopt these new tools because of their similarity to other familiar environments, such as the Microsoft Office system. | included | included |
Integration with Outlook 2007 | ||
With Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, users can view calendars and contact lists stored on SharePoint sites, and create and manage sites for editing documents and organizing meetings. | included | included |
Integration with SharePoint Designer | ||
Office SharePoint Designer 2007, based in part on Microsoft FrontPage technology, will provide tools for rich customization of sites, and creating reporting tools and application templates, without any coding. | included | included |
Search | WSS | MOSS |
User Interface | ||
Simple, clean yet powerful user interface with industry-standard query syntax. Scopes are decoupled from content sources so users can easily broaden or narrow the scope of a content search. Search can be based on arbitrary content properties such as URL, type, and author. Actionable search results can be easily filtered and sorted; used and shared. Alerts and RSS feeds easily provide updated results for common and frequent queries. | included | included |
Search Results | ||
Search results are rendered more clearly. Results are security trimmed so users only see what they can access. Results include user-friendly features such as hit highlighting, duplicate collapsing and synonym suggestion. Optional integration with real time communications tools allow users to easily contact content authors and experts. | included | included |
Enterprise Content Sources | ||
Searches over 200 file types in many enterprise content sources, including files shares, web sites, SharePoint sites, Exchange Public Folders, and Lotus Notes databases out of the box with the ability to extend to additional 3rd party repostitories and filetypes through the use of Protocol Handlers and iFilters | not available | included |
Relevance | ||
New and improved search algorithms tuned for enterprise content along with the use of relevance and ranking factors such as click distance, hyperlink anchor text, URL depth, and metadata extraction yeild the best results for enterprise content | not available | included |
Administration and Management | ||
Improved administration user interfaces and admin API provides broad support for various search and indexing scenarios, central controls for resource-intensive operations, as well as tools for management and reporting | not available | included |
Indexing Controls | ||
Granualr indexing controls for easy inclusion and exlusion of searched content as well as immediate result removal of any site or item. Continuous index propagation to keep information fresh. Improved crawl rules and crawl log; multiple start addresses per content source; a new browsable, filterable index log provide necessary information to optimize search | not available | included |
Security | ||
Administrator permissions no longer required by crawler. ACL and ACL-only crawls index content permissions for compliance, privacy, and protection of IP. Security-trimmed search results only allow users to see content they are allowed to access. | not available | included |
People Search | ||
People search capabilities allow users to find people not only by department or job title but also by expertise, social distance, and common interests. | not available | included |
Business Data Search | ||
Search data residing in your line of business applications using the Business Data Catalog. Structured content sources as well as LOB application data and reports accessible through web services or ADO.NET can be indexed and retrieved through the Business Data Catalog as search results or into a SharePoint list | not available | included |
Content Management | WSS | MOSS |
Business Document Workflow Support | ||
Automate document review, approval, signature collection, and issue tracking using workflow applications. | not available | included |
* Approval | not available | included |
* Collect Feedback | not available | included |
* Collect Signatures | not available | included |
* Disposition Approval | not available | included |
Document Management Site Templates | ||
* The Managed Document Library site template defines large-scale document management sites. | not available | included |
* The Divisional Library site template includes managed document libraries, dashboards, key performance indicators (KPIs), and other reporting tools. | not available | included |
* The Translation Library site template helps organizations manage multiple translations of a document. | not available | included |
Integration with Microsoft Information Rights Management (IRM) | ||
Helps ensure that access rights applied to Microsoft Office documents in a central library travel with the documents, even when they are downloaded from the library. | not available | included |
Document Information Panel | ||
Makes editing document properties an integral part of the Microsoft Office system document-authoring experience. | included | included |
Document Action Bar | ||
Describes to users what business policy or workflow governs the current document and what action they are expected to take. | not available | included |
Retention and Auditing Policies | ||
Define customized information management policies to control retention period, expiration actions, and document-auditing settings. | not available | included |
Records Repository | ||
Helps ensure the integrity of the files stored in the repository, and supports information management policies that consistently and uniformly enforce auditing, and expiration of records. | not available | included |
E-Mail Content as Records | ||
Provides consistent, policy-based solutions for managing e-mail content across Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Office SharePoint Server 2007. | not available | included |
Legal Holds | ||
Makes it possible for records to be searched and placed on hold during litigation discovery to override the retention schedule of the records. | not available | included |
High Fidelity Websites with Consistent Branding | ||
Provides the concept of Master Pages and Page layouts to enforce the branding and navigation of web sites. CSS supports gives pixel level control on the look and feel of these sites. | not available | included |
Navigation Controls | ||
Out-of-the box navigation controls that can be easily customized by end users | not available | included |
Content Authoring | ||
Provides the ability for information workers to create content rich web pages using a web browser. | not available | included |
Content Publishing and Deployment | ||
Built in approval workflow allows web content to be sent for approval prior to publishing. Content deployment to production sites can be schduled by setting up jobs and a "live" time period for each page can be specified within which that page is viewable. | not available | included |
Site Templates | ||
Includes support for several new enterprise site templates: | not available | included |
* The Enterprise Portal template provides a means for a business unit to create and share content that is relevant to the ongoing operation of an enterprise, division, or business unit. | not available | included |
* The Corporate Internet Presence Site template includes tools and workflows to create and manage Web content for products and service descriptions, company news, and public filings, among other things. | not available | included |
* The Application Portal template brings together all of the tools and information related to a particular line-of-business (LOB) application. | not available | included |
* The Roll-up Portal template consolidates data and content from several applications or locations and presents it in an integrated format. | not available | included |
Page Layouts | ||
Page Layouts simplify content authoring and publishing—site administrators define a structure that guides authors through the publishing process; content contributors focus on doing their jobs rather than on the details of publishing and deployment. Flexible Page Layouts also allow designers to mix and match ASP.NET applications, Web Parts and Authoring Templates in any configuration to create customized sites to meet specific business needs. | not available | included |
Site Variations | ||
A new feature of Office SharePoint Server, sites can be linked together in a parent-child type of relationship providing a 1-way orchestration framework for web content. This feature allow organizations to deploy multi-lingual publishing sites in a much more structured and manageable environment. | not available | included |
WYSIWYG Web Content Editor | ||
Extends the SharePoint user interface with additional commands and status indicators for in-context Web page authoring. | not available | included |
Slide Libraries | ||
The repository features in Windows SharePoint Services V3 provide the platform support for slide libraries, a feature of Office SharePoint Server 2007. Slide libraries enable the storage of individual slides in a SharePoint site. PowerPoint 2007 slide decks can be automatically created from a selection of slides in a slide library. | not available | included |
Policies, Auditing and Compliance | ||
Repositories in Windows SharePoint Services V3 support the following policy, auditing, and compliance features. However, the features denoted with an asterisk are activated only upon the installation of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. | not available | included |
Business Process & Forms | WSS | MOSS |
Browser-based Forms | ||
InfoPath Forms Services available in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Forms Server 2007 makes it possible to design Web-capable forms in Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 and distribute them on corporate intranets, extranets, or the Internet. Users can fill out forms in a browser or HTML enabled Mobile device with no download or client components needed. | not available | included |
Centralized Forms Management and Control | ||
InfoPath Forms Services provide a administrator controled centralized form solution catalog that makes it easy for users to find a form and minimize form solution downtime when upgrades are necessary. It also provides administrators with the tools to manage form solution security and accesibility. | not available | included |
“Design Once” Development Model | ||
Forms designers can design their forms once and deploy them for use both within the rich Office InfoPath 2007 client program and through a Web browser. Office Forms Server 2007 automatically converts the form into ASP.NET Web forms, with no additional work from the designer. | not available | included |
Form Import Wizard | ||
The designer in Office InfoPath 2007 provides an easy way to convert forms designed in Microsoft Office Excel and Microsoft Office Word into rich Office InfoPath 2007 forms. The Form Import Wizard handles the conversion of form fields, repeating tables, rich text boxes, and other elements, dynamically generating the underlying XML structure for the new form. | not available | included |
Integrated Deployment Model for “No-code” Forms | ||
The Publish Wizard in Office InfoPath 2007 makes it easy to publish forms that do not have any managed code components to a Windows SharePoint Services library, while making the form available as a browser-based form at the same time. | not available | included |
Compatibility Checker | ||
The Compatibility Checker helps forms designers validate those features that need to work across the broadest range of Web browsers. | not available | included |
Business Intelligence | WSS | MOSS |
Integrated, Flexible Spreadsheet Publishing | ||
Microsoft Office Excel 2007 provides an integrated publishing experience that lets information workers easily choose what they want to share with others and determine how others can interact with published spreadsheets. | not available | included |
Share, Manage, and Control Spreadsheets | ||
Share business data broadly while maintaining control and helping to protect sensitive information. Provides access to spreadsheet data and analysis through server-calculated, interactive Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheets from a Web browser. Use these spreadsheets to maintain and efficiently share one centralized version of the truth while helping to protect any sensitive or proprietary information embedded in documents, such as financial models, by limiting access to portions of the spreadsheet and auditing their usage. | not available | included |
Web-based Business Intelligence Using Excel Services | ||
Excel Services empowers spreadsheet authors to easily and broadly share spreadsheets that use the new Business Intelligence functionality through the browser. Fully interactive, data-bound spreadsheets including charts, tables, and PivotTable views can be created as part of a portal, dashboard, or business scorecard, without requiring any development. | not available | included |
Data Connection Libraries | ||
Data Connection Libraries are centralized SharePoint document libraries that store Office Data Connections (ODC); ODCs describe connections to external data. Centralizing Office Data Connections makes it easier to share, manage, and discover data connections that can be used by any Microsoft Office program. | not available | included |
Business Data Catalog | ||
The Business Data Catalog (BDC) tightly integrates external data into the Office SharePoint Server 2007 user experience, providing access to external data residing within backed LOB applications, and enabling the display of and interaction with external data through a set of Business Data Web Parts. | not available | included |
Business Data Web Parts | ||
Use SharePoint Business Data Web Parts for viewing lists, entities, and related information retrieved through the Business Data Catalog. | not available | included |
Business Data Actions | ||
With no custom coding, easily create actions that open Web pages, display the user interfaces of LOB applications, launch InfoPath forms, and perform other common tasks. Use the convenient links that appear beside business objects returned from the Business Data Catalog. | not available | included |
Integrated Business Intelligence Dashboards | ||
Create rich, interactive business intelligence dashboards that assemble and display business information from disparate sources by using built-in Web parts such as dynamic KPIs, Excel spreadsheets, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services reports, or a collection of business data connectivity Web Parts that can visualize information residing in backed LOB applications. | not available | included |
Report Center | ||
An out-of-the-box site optimized for report access and management, including a report library, data connection library, and a dashboard template. These sites, hosted by the new Report Center, provide consistent management of reports, spreadsheets, and data connections. | not available | included |
Key Performance Indicators | ||
KPIs communicate goals and status to drive results. Using the KPI Web Part, a user can create a KPI list within a Web Part page, without writing code. The KPI Web Part can display KPIs from Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services, Excel spreadsheets, SharePoint lists, or manually entered data. | not available | included |
Filter Web Parts | ||
Filters enable dashboards to be personalized by communicating shared parameters among Web Parts on a dashboard. The parameters passed can be automatically applied based on user profiles, SharePoint lists, the BDC, manually entered information, and so forth. | not available | included |